I don't want to do this for him, but honestly, this car sounds like a better candidate for a race car or engine swap than anything. Thus should be given to me for LS swap

 

To the pump goes just 12V controled with relay. Gauge setting is controlled from CAN signal, so there is something wrong comming from CAN, but that is going to be hard to diagnose.

 

^^^

 

The car was for almost nothing and is comming from south Italy, where there is no snowing, so the car body is in super condition and also has just 80k KM... So dont worry, it will be running good and I do not stay with stock to the future, but it will take a while. Some V8 in there would be too heavy, we do not have such a straight streets like you in US.

 

where are you?

 

From the city of the best beer in the world - Pilsen in Czech Republic.

Here is the video of ECU blinking diagnosis - you can see weird gauges behaviour there - rpm, fuel, temperature is set without a reason ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2n...ature=youtu.be

 

A LS1 weighs less than 50 pounds more than a VQ and is WAY more compact, I am biased though

 

sits lower and further back also

 

Thanks man, I told it to my brother and now even my brother tells me, that this LS1 is a great engine and that I should do that . But anyway, I will stick with repairing this one for now...

 

do it!!! or you could go big and drop the motor i have in my car in there... ls7

 

 

Yes I was looking to your subscritption what a machine you have! Those are fantastic cars guys and I wish it would be easy like you say here in Europe. First is, that it would be really hard and goddamn expensive to find such an engine here.

Second thing is, that CZ is a small country, 20 years after comunism, so even when I am SW engineer and programming instrument clusters (currently for new Bugatti Chiron and Aston Martin DB11) in Continental and the average salary here for SW developer is around 800USD/monthly, so you can imagine how hard is even to buy old cars such as 350Z.

On the other hand, parts for this car you can find it cheap here. I already have a reservation for used working VQ for 700 USD, later on my brother will do some custom turbo built for me and it is going to be good as well. It is my first such car and buying engine like LS1 is still out of my league now, but I have to admit, that it is very good idea from you!

 

So the engine is running perfectly fine. It was just the dead pump, nothing else... And gauges seems that had been swaped for not properly working one, but it seems that someone who was selling this car lost a lot of money!

 

do i win a prize for being the first one to say it was the pump?!?!?! glad you got it running

 

Yes you won! Good guess, that was our guess too, but based on the problem with gauges we were focusing more on electronics, fuse and going with multimeter for a while...

Anyway everything works like a charm, except those crazy gauges. I will probably simply buy another one, I found one for 100USD 15KM from my place, but was wondering what could went wrong with them, I have never seen such crazy behavior...

BTW, my brother has put there a pump from Nissan Almera GTi, it seems like 100% the same, also is 90l, do you think that it is possible, that they really put the same pump to 2L as to the 3,5L car? It seems that it is pulling ok, but could not test it properly because of heavy snow here...